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Chris Smith is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing New Jersey's 4th congressional district since 1981. Throughout his tenure, he has focused on a range of issues including human rights, foreign affairs, and health care. Smith has been involved in various legislative efforts aimed at improving health services and advocating for the rights of individuals both domestically and internationally. His long-standing service in Congress has made him a prominent figure in New Jersey politics.
In New Jersey, 100,000 people have tested positive for COVID-19, with more than 5,000 suffering death. Forty percent of those who have died are women and men in nursing homes and veterans in long-term care homes. We grieve their loss. My…
As of today, in my State alone, 6,800 people have been tested positive, with 81 deaths; and, in one family alone, four members of the family have died. Containing the pandemic and developing and deploying reliable therapeutics and a safe…
I'm for scrapping the filibuster at the earliest possible time because it so inhibits good legislation that often passes the House.
The Holocaust Museum has called these crimes against humanity. It is clear these are horrific crimes.
It's just--it's despicable. And for us to be complicit in any way, shape, or form in like manner is terribly wrong.
And I'm afraid that we may see some kind of response that would parallel that as this legislation makes its way.
It's not just getting the European Union. It's getting every government we can, every industry, and every country that we can, to speak out about this.
I would just conclude--and I thank my friend for yielding this time--I mentioned earlier about the trip to China, to Beijing, in 1991, in March.
The Chinese government is so cruel that not only do they incarcerate people, and jail and torture people who speak out in-country
But I say this because the superficiality of having an MOU--time and time again when I and others would raise it with both the Bush Administration, that's George Herbert Walker, and the Clinton Administration, they said: But we have an MOU…
I’m the author of the original TVPA and co-sponsor of the Wilberforce Act in 2008.
You know better than anybody what it takes to get the Chinese government to change, or not change.
Over the course of many years, I have consistently sponsored and promoted women's rights legislation to ensure equal pay for equal work including most recently, the Paycheck Fairness Act. In the struggle against wage discrimination, I…
If we do not encourage Africa's transition to becoming the next largest consumer market in the world, the force of the youth bulge will likely turn Africa into the world's main conflict zone.
I think is the best trade agreement I have ever seen. When the AFL/CIO and the Chamber of Commerce both agree to it, it is historic.
I have met many women who have been trafficked. I have had hearings with trafficking victims and they need our love, our concern, and they certainly need rescue.
I do believe we need to care for both. We need to love both, mother and baby, and do everything humanly possible to ensure that there is a safe delivery.
Let me also point out that PEPFAR was the brainchild, frankly, of George Walker--George W. Bush.
Let us affirm them both. This policy affirms them both and says contraception, this does not cut it by one dollar.
I do believe that USAID has embarked and this is part of PEPFAR as well, to try to provide a means to assist these women.
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